Introverts can be very social in small groups or in proper circumstances. They tend to dislike large groups. I have one friend who is introverted and very bright. While she'll play down her accomplishments in a general sense, if she thinks someone is being hurt or even inconvenienced she'll have no trouble telling the person that they have no idea what they're talking about in the most forceful terms.
I define 'inform others' as her saying "that's wrong, you have no idea what you're talking about." In other words, telling a person that they are incompetent or unable to participate because they're just not up to speed, or lacking in some other way. She'll stress her competence i.e. "I KNOW what I'm talking about" or emphasize her own qualifications or authority. I did x, y z, etc.
I think the slashdot user experience would be greatly enhanced if, instead of having to type a word to prove you weren't a 'bot' you had to answer a trivia question. The question should involve some level of analysis so you can't just google the answer. I wonder what that type of control would do to the quality of a forum. Of course, I suppose karma bonuses serve roughly the same purpose on Slashdot.
I think you're confusing introverts with... um... mimes?
An introvert will inform others. He's just more likely to do it online.;)
Introverts can be very public people, even actors. They just need time to recharge after socializing, prefer smaller groups etc.
Joke: How can you tell the difference between an introverted geek and an extroverted geek? An introverted geek stares at his shoes when he talks to you. An extroverted geek stares at your shoes.
All in all I have no problem with women or men. I don't like men that act like women any more than I like a woman that acts like a man. I have noticed in my behavior and that of many other males, that we are being less like men, and that is simply unnatural.
That's a tautology. "Nature is what we were, not what we are."
If we're doing somthing, that's our nature. If we're not doing it, it's not our nature. Or, if you prefer, doing somthing that is unnatural is sub-optimal or doesn't make us happy in the long term. If that's what you mean, then say that.
The notion of what is "Natural" was borrowed from the Romans by Christian apologists and made to mean somthing that it did not originally. If you mean to say you don't think certain types of behavior are "godly" then say "godly." The term 'natural' is just a code word for somthing else and it's horribly vauge.
"Western society is getting so feminized" Women and men are different. I know that is not a popular opinion, but the boobies and the having kids thing kinda comes to mind.
Yeah, physically men and women are different. Noone's disputing that. Noone sane anyways.
But if you think that nurturing kids is equivalent to being female, why are more people opting to go without kids? Why do more men feel they don't have to get married to a girl if she gets pregnant? It seems like society has been becoming more selfish, not more nurturing. The whole feminist movement aimed to allow women to take on traditionally male roles.
Aren't the traits that you describe; authoritairanism, desire to dominate, all linked in with racism? Maybe going too far in that direction is a bad thing. If we've moved away from it, then yay for us.
Western society is getting more like the emotional and nurturing side. Like the "high self esteem" plan vs doing something to feel good about yourself.
Is this really a male-female dichotomy?
I'm glad you didn't jump to conclusions. In fact, many of us "nerds" are more on the female side of things in that we want everybody to win
Too much testosterone is not good for business. Executives tend to have lower testosterone than people in their age group, IIRC. The people with the highest levels of testosterone tend to be in prison. Of course, older people are more likely to be executives and younger people are more likely to be in prison, but still...
I can't speak for everyone on slashdot, but the site seems to have a rather libertarian bent. They're opposed to abuses of the system, which are often imposed by corporations, and they're very cyncal. People may even be opposed to the way that information is treated as property. But I'm not sure I'd go the last mile and say 'anti-corporate.'
I mean, IBM runs a pretty ethical ship and I don't see a lot of hate male pertaining to them.
Comments are rarely entirely one way. Different stories will attract different users. But disregarding these things, I just don't think that 'anti-corporate' is the best word for Slashdot. Consumer friendly, perhaps. But they should be. Consumer reports isn't 'anti-corporate.' It's there so people can get the best bang for their buck. Same with Slashdot.
If you see any holes in this view, I welcome the insight.
You ignore people who think you don't exist? If you're actually in the tech world, I'm sure you're pretty aware that the male female ratio is skewed to the male side of things. I would it were not so, but that's life. Yeah, there are female geeks. But it's not a 1:1 ratio. I've dated some fairly geeky girls, but they're still not easy to find.
So people can date another kind of geek. Go to an SCA event. Anyone who dresses up in Elizabethian period clothing is going to be understanding of geeky ways.
A lot of the pay sites encourage people to create profiles, then afterwards inform them that they have to pay in order to use the system. The result is a lot of profiles with people who cant read their e-mail and wont reply. Free sites like Plentyoffish.com or even better, OKCupid (designed by geeks, with an automated values matching system) are much better for meeting people. I just moved to Arizona, and Ive been trying to meet some folks in my area who arent a bit more intelligent and literary than average. Its not perfect, but Ive gotten replies from maybe one fourth to one fifth of my e-mails and three or four people in my area who are actually the type of geeks I like chatting with.
Craigslist has an even higher reply rate, though not a lot of posts and of course, no searching or filtering system which effectively diminishes the number of interesting people you can find in a given amount of time.
If he was just a corporate shill, I don't think he'd have such an extensive history on Slashdot, right? Unless Match.com employs Slashdot readers, or somthing to that effect...
For your praise of state-owned institutions: yes, I do claim that all such institutions are useless.
This would explain why the government-run millitary has been unable to defend our country and why the internet has failed to prosper.
In a competitive free market, private businesses will always outperform state run institutions, sure. Not all markets involve competition, though. Some markets don't even exist. And some businesses, like the state lottery, don't really require any innovation. Furthermore, the scientific research that Monsanto puts out has been pretty consistantly biased in their favor. We need good information, even if we sometimes have to resort to inefficient means to acquire it.
I still think there should be a separate line at the DMV so that people willing to pay $5 extra don't have to stand in line. But blanket statements are dangerous.
The matter isn't quite so cut and dried. There are free presses in China but the government has firm control over the mass media. You can criticize the government, but you have to be POLITE. The problem is more that laws are weak and families are strong. If you piss off a powerful family, they can retaliate against you. This isn't totalitarianism per se, though it has most of the negatives of totalitariansm. It's more anarchic or oligarchic than, say, Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy. Of course those seen as embarassing China (by spreading accurate information on the spread of infectious diseases) often manage to piss off the boys in Beijing.
China has been changing a lot in terms of freedom of association. People are now allowed to sleep together even if they aren't married. New rule! Heh.
One very awkward solution to this is to download and install Moodle. Moodle is a freeware LMS. It allows you to grant priveledges to various users, restrict those privelidges to within particular 'courses' allow people to password protect the courses or only allow certain people into their course, move comments, make quizzes that save to a database, collaborative wiki pages, etc.
1. Fever increases the environmental temperature above the optimum growth temperature for many microorganisms. If the microorganisms are growing more slowly, the body's defenses have a better chance of removing them all.
2. Fever leads to the production of heat shock proteins that are recognized by some intraepithelial T-lymphocytes (delta gamma T-cells) resulting in the production of inflammation-promoting cytokines.
3. Fever elevates the temperature of the body increasing the rate of enzyme reactions, and speeding up metabolism within the body. An elevation in the rate of metabolism can increase the production and activity of phagocytes, speed up the multiplication of lymphocytes, increase the rate of antibody and cytokine production, increase the rate at which leukocytes are released from the bone marrow into the bloodstream, and speed up tissue repair. Too high of a body temperature, however, may cause damage by denaturing the body's enzymes.
The last thing we should be doing is taking away support for these schools that so desperatly need it.
But we aren't taking funding away from the students that need it. Thats the point. (or would be if Bush would fund his own damn bill.) This program would allow those students in an underfunded school system to go take advantage of a better school system in a different community rather than separating kids into wealthy neighiborhoods and well funded schools and poor neighiborhoods with underfunded schools.
but punishing the entire school because of a few low performing teachers is ludicrous.
Not removing low performing teachers FROM the school is ludicrous. Right now there's little incentive to do so and a lot of incentive not to.
I'd like to find and reward the best teachers, but I think it's a lot easier to set up a program which identifies incompetence and punishes it than it is to identify excellence and reward it. The second is much harder to quantify. You can easily wind up with a teacher who 'teaches to the test.'
It's hard to separate the mediocre teachers from the good ones, but it's easier to see the results of a bad teacher if their class doesn't progress at the same rate as they had in the past.
The problem with picking up scientific theories on the street is the same with picking up sex ed on the street. The informaiton is frequently flawed. Most people have an inaccurate view of evolution. Even the CDC seems to be using a theory for the evolution of infectious fluid-borne diseases which is 15 years outdated. (See Ewald vs. Burnette and White)
I wish schools would actually teach about Darwinian gradualism. The theory of Punctuated equilibrium, etc. But we're lucky to get that in a college course.
Look up into the night sky - is that not proof enough of an Intelligent Designer?
It is not scientific proof, because it cannot be tested.
Here's what worries me about Intelligent Design _in science classes_; it teaches kids that 'God did it' is, by itself, an acceptable answer to a scientific question. Imagine if you went into a court room. They asked you questions about what you witnessed regarding a homicide. For every answer, you said "God did it. It was his will." Whether or not this is true, your answers would not be well received. You might even be thrown in jail for contempt. Imagine a person who gave this answer for every question.
Q: How much money does this cost? A: The price is God's will.
etc.
This dosen't represent any actual knowledge or data. It is not useful. It is not testable. It has no predictive value. It does not belong in a science class.
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Introverts can be very social in small groups or in proper circumstances. They tend to dislike large groups. I have one friend who is introverted and very bright. While she'll play down her accomplishments in a general sense, if she thinks someone is being hurt or even inconvenienced she'll have no trouble telling the person that they have no idea what they're talking about in the most forceful terms.
I define 'inform others' as her saying "that's wrong, you have no idea what you're talking about." In other words, telling a person that they are incompetent or unable to participate because they're just not up to speed, or lacking in some other way. She'll stress her competence i.e. "I KNOW what I'm talking about" or emphasize her own qualifications or authority. I did x, y z, etc.
I think the slashdot user experience would be greatly enhanced if, instead of having to type a word to prove you weren't a 'bot' you had to answer a trivia question. The question should involve some level of analysis so you can't just google the answer. I wonder what that type of control would do to the quality of a forum. Of course, I suppose karma bonuses serve roughly the same purpose on Slashdot.
I think you're confusing introverts with... um... mimes?
;)
An introvert will inform others. He's just more likely to do it online.
Introverts can be very public people, even actors. They just need time to recharge after socializing, prefer smaller groups etc.
Joke:
How can you tell the difference between an introverted geek and an extroverted geek? An introverted geek stares at his shoes when he talks to you. An extroverted geek stares at your shoes.
I spent about $150 on construction toys for my baby cousins, but decided against Legos. I wanted toys that were more mechanically oriented.
All in all I have no problem with women or men. I don't like men that act like women any more than I like a woman that acts like a man. I have noticed in my behavior and that of many other males, that we are being less like men, and that is simply unnatural.
That's a tautology. "Nature is what we were, not what we are."
If we're doing somthing, that's our nature. If we're not doing it, it's not our nature. Or, if you prefer, doing somthing that is unnatural is sub-optimal or doesn't make us happy in the long term. If that's what you mean, then say that.
The notion of what is "Natural" was borrowed from the Romans by Christian apologists and made to mean somthing that it did not originally. If you mean to say you don't think certain types of behavior are "godly" then say "godly." The term 'natural' is just a code word for somthing else and it's horribly vauge.
"Western society is getting so feminized"
Women and men are different. I know that is not a popular opinion, but the boobies and the having kids thing kinda comes to mind.
Yeah, physically men and women are different. Noone's disputing that. Noone sane anyways.
But if you think that nurturing kids is equivalent to being female, why are more people opting to go without kids? Why do more men feel they don't have to get married to a girl if she gets pregnant? It seems like society has been becoming more selfish, not more nurturing. The whole feminist movement aimed to allow women to take on traditionally male roles.
Aren't the traits that you describe; authoritairanism, desire to dominate, all linked in with racism? Maybe going too far in that direction is a bad thing. If we've moved away from it, then yay for us.
Western society is getting more like the emotional and nurturing side. Like the "high self esteem" plan vs doing something to feel good about yourself.
Is this really a male-female dichotomy?
I'm glad you didn't jump to conclusions. In fact, many of us "nerds" are more on the female side of things in that we want everybody to win
Too much testosterone is not good for business. Executives tend to have lower testosterone than people in their age group, IIRC. The people with the highest levels of testosterone tend to be in prison. Of course, older people are more likely to be executives and younger people are more likely to be in prison, but still...
I can't speak for everyone on slashdot, but the site seems to have a rather libertarian bent. They're opposed to abuses of the system, which are often imposed by corporations, and they're very cyncal. People may even be opposed to the way that information is treated as property. But I'm not sure I'd go the last mile and say 'anti-corporate.'
I mean, IBM runs a pretty ethical ship and I don't see a lot of hate male pertaining to them.
Comments are rarely entirely one way. Different stories will attract different users. But disregarding these things, I just don't think that 'anti-corporate' is the best word for Slashdot. Consumer friendly, perhaps. But they should be. Consumer reports isn't 'anti-corporate.' It's there so people can get the best bang for their buck. Same with Slashdot.
If you see any holes in this view, I welcome the insight.
You ignore people who think you don't exist? If you're actually in the tech world, I'm sure you're pretty aware that the male female ratio is skewed to the male side of things. I would it were not so, but that's life. Yeah, there are female geeks. But it's not a 1:1 ratio. I've dated some fairly geeky girls, but they're still not easy to find.
So people can date another kind of geek. Go to an SCA event. Anyone who dresses up in Elizabethian period clothing is going to be understanding of geeky ways.
A lot of the pay sites encourage people to create profiles, then afterwards inform them that they have to pay in order to use the system. The result is a lot of profiles with people who cant read their e-mail and wont reply. Free sites like Plentyoffish.com or even better, OKCupid (designed by geeks, with an automated values matching system) are much better for meeting people. I just moved to Arizona, and Ive been trying to meet some folks in my area who arent a bit more intelligent and literary than average. Its not perfect, but Ive gotten replies from maybe one fourth to one fifth of my e-mails and three or four people in my area who are actually the type of geeks I like chatting with.
Craigslist has an even higher reply rate, though not a lot of posts and of course, no searching or filtering system which effectively diminishes the number of interesting people you can find in a given amount of time.
If he was just a corporate shill, I don't think he'd have such an extensive history on Slashdot, right? Unless Match.com employs Slashdot readers, or somthing to that effect...
I think some people pirate for the convenience, as much as anything.
Where does he go in China and how well does it work there?
I'd imagine it'd be pretty good in Taiwan.
I called China via skype a year or two ago. The quality was horrid. I couldn't even hear the other person.
For your praise of state-owned institutions: yes, I do claim that all such institutions are useless.
This would explain why the government-run millitary has been unable to defend our country and why the internet has failed to prosper.
In a competitive free market, private businesses will always outperform state run institutions, sure. Not all markets involve competition, though. Some markets don't even exist. And some businesses, like the state lottery, don't really require any innovation. Furthermore, the scientific research that Monsanto puts out has been pretty consistantly biased in their favor. We need good information, even if we sometimes have to resort to inefficient means to acquire it.
I still think there should be a separate line at the DMV so that people willing to pay $5 extra don't have to stand in line. But blanket statements are dangerous.
The matter isn't quite so cut and dried. There are free presses in China but the government has firm control over the mass media. You can criticize the government, but you have to be POLITE. The problem is more that laws are weak and families are strong. If you piss off a powerful family, they can retaliate against you. This isn't totalitarianism per se, though it has most of the negatives of totalitariansm. It's more anarchic or oligarchic than, say, Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy. Of course those seen as embarassing China (by spreading accurate information on the spread of infectious diseases) often manage to piss off the boys in Beijing.
China has been changing a lot in terms of freedom of association. People are now allowed to sleep together even if they aren't married. New rule! Heh.
One very awkward solution to this is to download and install Moodle. Moodle is a freeware LMS. It allows you to grant priveledges to various users, restrict those privelidges to within particular 'courses' allow people to password protect the courses or only allow certain people into their course, move comments, make quizzes that save to a database, collaborative wiki pages, etc.
There's probably a more elegant solution, though.
Wow. I had no clue it was such a strong anti-bacterial.
Why wouldn't they use electricity? Electricity can stimulate neurons...
Hot water is still helpful when brushing teeth.
n it2/innate/fever.html
1. Fever increases the environmental temperature above the optimum growth temperature for many microorganisms. If the microorganisms are growing more slowly, the body's defenses have a better chance of removing them all.
2. Fever leads to the production of heat shock proteins that are recognized by some intraepithelial T-lymphocytes (delta gamma T-cells) resulting in the production of inflammation-promoting cytokines.
3. Fever elevates the temperature of the body increasing the rate of enzyme reactions, and speeding up metabolism within the body. An elevation in the rate of metabolism can increase the production and activity of phagocytes, speed up the multiplication of lymphocytes, increase the rate of antibody and cytokine production, increase the rate at which leukocytes are released from the bone marrow into the bloodstream, and speed up tissue repair. Too high of a body temperature, however, may cause damage by denaturing the body's enzymes.
from http://www.cat.cc.md.us/courses/bio141/lecguide/u
A lot of Japanese or asian gums use xylitol and avoid the artificial sweetners.
The last thing we should be doing is taking away support for these schools that so desperatly need it.
But we aren't taking funding away from the students that need it. Thats the point. (or would be if Bush would fund his own damn bill.) This program would allow those students in an underfunded school system to go take advantage of a better school system in a different community rather than separating kids into wealthy neighiborhoods and well funded schools and poor neighiborhoods with underfunded schools.
but punishing the entire school because of a few low performing teachers is ludicrous.
Not removing low performing teachers FROM the school is ludicrous. Right now there's little incentive to do so and a lot of incentive not to.
I'd like to find and reward the best teachers, but I think it's a lot easier to set up a program which identifies incompetence and punishes it than it is to identify excellence and reward it. The second is much harder to quantify. You can easily wind up with a teacher who 'teaches to the test.'
It's hard to separate the mediocre teachers from the good ones, but it's easier to see the results of a bad teacher if their class doesn't progress at the same rate as they had in the past.
The problem with picking up scientific theories on the street is the same with picking up sex ed on the street. The informaiton is frequently flawed. Most people have an inaccurate view of evolution. Even the CDC seems to be using a theory for the evolution of infectious fluid-borne diseases which is 15 years outdated. (See Ewald vs. Burnette and White)
I wish schools would actually teach about Darwinian gradualism. The theory of Punctuated equilibrium, etc. But we're lucky to get that in a college course.
Look up into the night sky - is that not proof enough of an Intelligent Designer?
It is not scientific proof, because it cannot be tested.
Here's what worries me about Intelligent Design _in science classes_; it teaches kids that 'God did it' is, by itself, an acceptable answer to a scientific question. Imagine if you went into a court room. They asked you questions about what you witnessed regarding a homicide. For every answer, you said "God did it. It was his will." Whether or not this is true, your answers would not be well received. You might even be thrown in jail for contempt. Imagine a person who gave this answer for every question.
Q: How much money does this cost?
A: The price is God's will.
etc.
This dosen't represent any actual knowledge or data. It is not useful. It is not testable. It has no predictive value. It does not belong in a science class.